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Between a major Monday night TF2 update, and some minor updates I haven’t covered from the last few weeks, we have a lot to cover! As usual, the summary is on top, and the full patch notes are at the end of the post.

Packhead is no longer hosting a 24/7 Christmas music stream here, thru December 25th. Thanks Pack!

Clink on the M3U button at the top-right to begin streaming. (Works with iTunes too!)

(12/9/14) The “End of the Line” Community Update is now live (see below)! Read its splash page and watch the 13-minute animated short movie.

Added EotL Crate Keys, Piles of EotL Keys, and Random EotL Keys. They do not expire.

See below for the list of 21 community cosmetics found in the End of the Line crate.

One weapon reskin: the melee Crossing Guard, a railroad crossbuck complete with lights.

Equippable by all classes except Engineer and Spy, and deals stock melee damage.

1. The “End of the Line” Update

EotL Community Crates

Opening an EotL crate drops one of 21 possible cosmetics, a new Pyro taunt, the Crossing Guard melee reskin, or the roughly 1% chance of an Unusual item with one of four EotL-specific Unusual Effects! A specific item has a roughly 4.3% chance of dropping. Some of the items uncrated will be Strange quality.

Taunts

Oh Look–Another Melee Reskin!

Yep, it’s the Crossing Guard, a stock-reskin melee weapon equippable by all classes except Engineer and Spy. It is not currently craftable; the only way to obtain it at this time is to uncrate it from an EotL crate. But craft numbers have been enabled, so perhaps they will be craftable in the future.

Get Duckies

Carry your very own Duck Journal on your chest while you fight, and earn Duckstreaks that function as if you had a Killstreaker weapon equipped! Killing enemies also causes ducks to drop, which quack when picked up and are added to a Duck XP Level.

You must purchase a Duck Journal from the Mann Co. Store (US$4.99) to participate in this month-long, duck-collecting event. Basically, you collect ducks by killing enemies, and have a specialized Duckstreaker announcement in the killfeed.

Purchase Duck Tokens (US$1.99 from the Mann Co. Store) to level-up your Duck Journal up to a maximum of Level Five. Higher levels causes more ducks to drop from killed enemies. Piles of Duck Tokens are US$45.77, and function like the Piles of Keys tools (gives away one token to up to 23 random players on your current server). So do Random Duck Tokens Gifts (US$1.99). Duck Journals and Tokens are giftable after several days.

Statistics from duck collecting are being kept via leaderboards (much like the Dueling Game “Season”). Ducks will cease dropping on January 5th, 2015. Is this just a shameless money grab? Who knows–but are those duck eyes hypnotizing?!If you are enjoying the new content, spring for a Duck Journal and Tokens so the creators of the content can get paid.

Snowplow…?

An attack/defend map, cp_snowplow, was intended for release with this update, reenacting the events of the EotL movie in the identical location. Apparently it has not been included in the update. Stay tuned.